An Awesome View of Life

  Pride and Joy! Today our family celebrated our youngest's college graduation.  She choose not to "walk" but did get herself a cap and gown so we could take pictures and make it look official.  Afterwards the entire family headed to Annie's for burgers and shakes.   I am so very proud of this young woman.  She worked hard to keep it all together and graduate in 4 years.   The picture below is her showing off her outfit which of course is the Gopher maroon and gold.  I see my mom in all of my kids but in this picture Keia reminded so very much of her.  Now on to the next chapter of her life. I  love her more than she will ever think I do.  (:

Flawed? This beauty allowed to snap several photos.  Even very, very close up.  Do you seeing the missing part? Climate Kids  website states this is an Oregon Swallowtail found of course in Oregon.  But we live in Minnesota?  Hmmm...

.  Tiny bubbles. This photo opportunity was spotted in the kitchen as I was flying through to take a different photo.  This GREEN tumbler has been sitting on the table all day with more and more bubbles appearing as the day went by.  I a lso love the napkin holder background.   The photo I eventually took turned out pretty cool as well.  Maybe, I'll share it another day. ha! And I wasn't really feeling bad about myself in my post last night.  I just saw how much better my photos can be if I have time and it ticked me off.  Thank you for all of the love, support and encouragement.  So very glad so many of you enjoy my creativity.  

Come fly us. Baby took one shoe with her when we went outside today.  She hates walking on our pebbly patio barefoot.  But bee-lined it to the grass, brushed off the bottom of her feet and started flying helicopters.  The shoe was still there long after she went home.  It just looked so cute surrounded by helicopters.  (:

Shadowed. Just a sliver of a shadow on this flower and the shadow belongs to me.  I thought I had moved far enough away so I wasn't creating a shadow but apparently not.  And apparently I wasn't observant enough to see it and take another photo.  Oh well, its still a pretty flower. (:

Are you crazy? We had a duck couple wandering through our neighborhood this afternoon.  I grabbed my camera and stood in the rain on the very wet doorstep in stocking feet.  As the ducks waddle past on the other side of the street, the male stopped and looked straight at me.  I'm pretty sure he had that "Are you crazy?" look in his eye.  ha!  We were lucky today and all of the really heavy rain missed us.  We had either a constant drizzle or a steady rain.  Another very productive day. 

Floating along... Several of this pieces of grass and reeds floated past on the lake.  Some large like this one and others were much smaller. Not sure what this is about so if any one can explain?